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Heather Joy Photographs

Photographer · Waltham, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 194 Christchurch photography businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Heather Joy Photographs

Photographer · Waltham, Christchurch

Where you stand#46of 194 photography businesses
Overall health7.7/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Heather Joy Photographs is an award-winning photographer based in Phillipstown, Christchurch, specialising in events, people and place photography with a strong storytelling focus. Heather offers commercial and personal shoots, and indicates her images can support business visual content. Clients can request a quote to document events or to photograph a special piece of local history.

Heather Joy Photographs is an award-winning photography practice based in Phillipstown, Christchurch. The business focuses on photographing events, people and places, working with both commercial and personal commissions and emphasising story-telling in its imagery.

Services include event coverage, portrait work and on-location shoots that capture places and moments. The business describes its work as useful for boosting business visual content and offers quotes for projects that record a special piece of history or support a public-facing campaign.

Clients consistently mention a professional, prompt approach and an attentive photographic eye. Review themes note work with weddings, community organisations and musicians, and describe images that help share stories and capture key moments. Clients report that the photographer fits into event days smoothly and produces images that enable organisations and individuals to present their narratives.

Locally, Heather Joy Photographs presents as a photographer who combines an award-winning background with a storytelling emphasis and a willingness to work across events, portraits and place-based projects. The practice is positioned to serve Christchurch customers seeking imagery for personal milestones, community initiatives or commercial visual content.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Heather Joy Photographs shows a healthy Google Business Listing with strong completion in key fields, and a clear, claimed profile. The main remaining gap is contact accessibility, as no phone number is listed. Strengths include a complete address, an open-for-business status, a listed website, and a claimed listing, supporting credible customer contact and trust.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

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    PhoneYour listing has no phone number, so the call button a customer expects to tap is not there and the ones in a hurry ring someone else.
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    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
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    Photos on the listingThere are more pictures on most listings around you than on yours, so a customer flicking between them gets a fuller look at the businesses either side of you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.4Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (7)
Photographer · Waltham
Open 7 days ✓
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From the business

Kia ora. I'm an award-winning photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand, photographing events, people and places with a sharp focus on story-telling. Contact me to learn how my images can boost your business' visual content, and to request a quote to photograph a special piece of your history.

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Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Heather Joy Photographs has a health score of 5.8 out of 10, which is above average and suggests some strengths alongside room for growth. The strongest finding is a top-10% Google star rating, indicating high customer satisfaction. A key area to improve is responding to reviews, as no responses have been recorded yet.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
5.9Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #81 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

Heather Joy Photographs shows a healthy performance on Google Maps with a 7.4 out of 10 health score. The business ranks strongly for core local terms in Phillipstown, highlighted by top positions for key phrases such as photographer in phillipstown and wedding photographer in phillipstown, indicating solid visibility for events, portraits and wedding projects.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
7.4Good
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Soul Creative Studio5.0 ★ (77) · Photographer
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Pete Prue Photography5.0 ★ (114) · Photographer
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Redbox Photo & Frame5.0 ★ (3) · Photographer
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Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #52 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Heather Joy Photographs shows a low overall health score (2.8/10) for social and directory presence, indicating limited reach. The strongest existing asset is a very high-trust Facebook profile, which demonstrates credible local visibility. Key opportunities focus on expanding presence with Instagram and LinkedIn, plus Fresha, TikTok, and Yellow Directory to improve discovery and trust.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    LinkedIn ProfileWe can see your LinkedIn Profile listing (https://linkedin.com/in/heathermilne400) found via: Your website.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
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TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
LinkedInNo listing found✓
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #28 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
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    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
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    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.0Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #97 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Heather Joy Photographs shows very low on-page SEO health with a 1.1/10 health score. Key findings indicate missing on-page SEO score, no meta description on the homepage, and no title tag detected. Favicon is also absent, and some mixed content issues may be present. Addressing these issues is essential for better visibility and click-throughs.

Strengths

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    Page titleYour home page headline fits a search result exactly, so the whole line reads to someone scanning a page of results rather than cutting off mid-phrase.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
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    The shape of your link profileYour links come from fewer separate sites than most profiles the size of yours.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Heather Joy Photographs shows low overall website traffic health with a 1.6/10. Key takeaways point to near-zero organic traffic value and no organic traffic yet. Opportunities focus on building content, on-page SEO, and basic backlinks to start ranking, plus initial paid efforts with targeted campaigns and landing pages to capture inquiries.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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www.heatherjoyphotographs.co.nzAbout Heather Milne

Commercial photography · Event & wedding photography · Construction photography · Art collaborations · Landscape prints · Portraits. Contact. heatherjoymilne@ ... Read more

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1About 3 visits a month from search, across 3 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #70 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

Heather Joy Photographs' opening hours largely match Christchurch demand during weekday daytime, with most high-demand hours covered. Strong alignment appears around mid-day Monday and Wednesday, while several evening peaks are missed. A small number of open hours fall into lower-demand pockets, suggesting limited inefficiency. Overall timing is commercially strong but could be fine-tuned to capture evening event searches.

Strengths

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    Hours aligned with demandNo business here matches the demand around it more closely than you do - you are open when people are looking and shut when they are not.

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here. Your hours already line up with when people are looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.8Strong
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Hours ✓
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
Saturday9am-5pm
Sunday9am-5pm
Popular times Monday · Waltham
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Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #5 for opening hours
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The next step

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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

Where you'd stand#46of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
You are #46 overall
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